On Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:16:37 GMT Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > I was wondering if any of you have bought this and can comment on > whether it's any good - book at > https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/flask-web-development-miguel-grinberg/11181 > 75139.
Hamish, That's the book that I bought for Kindle. When I was talking about the shortcomings of the Kindle Reader on Chromium, that's the book that I was trying to search. I have to say that although search works with the Kindle Reader on Firefox it still seems to be a bit buggy. Everything seems to work OK in the Android reader. The Barnes and Noble price is pretty high (I make $44.99 nearly £38 at today's prices). Amazon UK have it for £22.20 for the paperback or £17.54 for Kindle, which is what I paid. My analysis of the book is that it's different to the web tutorial but not necessarily better. The book certainly seems to cover more topics though, such as Performance Analysis and Unit Testing. The example code for the book is hosted on Miguel's GitLab page and can be checked out for use by his readers, so buying it in paper or eBook format isn't a disadvantage in that respect. As previously mentioned, I personally found some of the examples particularly difficult to understand, but I'm sure that's just me with my lack of a software engineering background. In the end I built the WMT Minster Status and Control pages using a combination of Miguel's book to start me on the learning curve the Harvard Tutorial at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdgYw-3tzfI to develop the Status page and the Stack Overflow query discussed in another posting for the Control. Miguel wrote the preferred solution at SO, although there is nothing quite like it in the book or the Tutorial (the SO solution uses request.method and request.form, whereas the book only mentions request.form once as an example of what can be done with it and it's not to manage buttons). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
